Daily Meditations for Tough Times

Live Your Life to the Fullest

Live your life to the fullest. Don’t wait until tomorrow to get done what needs to be done today. Get out and meet your friends for dinner. Start your search for that special someone. Let tomorrow worry about itself - you worry about today. Live your life to the fullest TODAY!

Don't Give Your Energy to Things that Don't Matter

Don't give your energy to things that don't matter.

Don't get caught up in the latest drama at work. Don't give in to negative thinking about what went wrong last night. Don't waste your time getting back at your co-worker. Don't give your energy to things that don't matter.

Your time here on earth is limited. You need to focus your energies and use them for things that are important to you.  That means giving some time each day or - at the very least - each week to things that you are trying to accomplish. That means CHOOSING to focus on the things that are important and allowing the ugly, negative, petty and useless things to pass you by.

Don't give your energy to things that don't matter. Use your energy to build yourself up, help others, nurture your spirituality and make a difference in life.

Because those are the things that matter.

You Will Always Have Problems

You will always have problems.  No matter how good you are, how well you do things, how nice you are to your kids - you will always have problems.  

Life is not fair, never has been fair and never will be fair.

Accept it. 

And move on.

Reflect on Your Life Today

Reflect on your life today.  Think about where you've been.  Think about where you want to go.  Be grateful for all the things that have gone into making you who you are.  Reflect...pause...meditate...and prepare for tomorrow!

Because the battle is yet to be won.

Focus on the Things that are Important

You've laid out your plans. You've thought your dreams through. You've outlined, you've listed your goals and decided on the pros and cons.

Focus now on the things that are important. And how can you tell what's most important? If what you are doing in no way improves you, motivates you, helps others or help drive you toward your dreams, it's not important.

Focus on the things that are important and let other, less important things, take care of themselves.

What's Important is That You Persevere

Challenges WILL come.  Life will sometimes seem merely a series of obstacles that you must overcome. Daily life can seem a drag.  Many things will seek to distract you.  Your head will not be in the game.  Your heart will wonder why you bother.

WHAT'S IMPORTANT IS THAT YOU PERSEVERE.

Through the good times and bad.  The mediocre and the mundane.

You must, you must, you must - Persevere.

Because what else would life be about if you didn't have your dreams?

Worry About Tomorrow, Tomorrow

Worry about tomorrow, tomorrow.  Plan your life, but spend your worry time on today.  As a matter of fact, don't worry at all - just do.  Do what needs to be done.  Take care of what needs to be taken care of.  If you live TODAY well enough, tomorrow will take care of itself.

You Are a Problem-Solver

You are a problem-solver. There is nothing you will encounter that you can’t figure out a way up, under, around or beneath. Problem-solve your way through this current difficulty. You can do it!

The Journey's Only Easy if You're Not Going Very Far

Your journey will only be easy if you are not going very far.  Think about it - how much easier is it to go to the corner store, which is just down the street, than to go to the mall, which is several miles away?  As is life - how much easier is it to graduate high school to work at a convenience store than to go to college, get a degree and eventually become a CEO?  Life is only easy if your goals are not that difficult to achieve.  The more you set out to do, the harder it will be.  Accept that your journey will be hard - but only because you plan to go very far!

Take One Day at a Time

Take one day at a time.  Take today, take care of things today and then anticipate tomorrow.  Plan your life, but live fully in the here and now.  Take one day at a time.  One step at a time.  One goal, one plan and one idea at a time. And keep on until you succeed...